For a dead MMO, Warhammer Online shows plenty of signs of life.
In the Empire, people celebrate the first day of summer with a holiday devoted to Sigmar, who is believed to have ascended to godhood on that day. Sigmartag is a day of resting, retelling stories based on Sigmar’s heroic deeds, and eating “Sigmar’s sausages”, which every province has their own version of. In the fan-run private server Return of Reckoning, it’s a time of war.
One of the things players lamented when Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning shut down after only five years of life was its Open Realm versus Realm conflicts, which Mythic Entertainment had adapted from the system it created for Dark Age of Camelot. By entering any of the oval-ish map areas nicknamed lakes, players joined a constant back-and-forth tug of war over contested ground between the factions.
